State ex rel. Smith v. Schweitzer
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The Supreme Court affirmed the court of appeals’ dismissal of Appellant’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed against the warden of the correctional facility where Appellant was incarcerated.
Appellant claimed that he was entitled to a writ of habeas corpus because he had served more than sixteen years’ imprisonment on a fifteen-year prison sentence. Specifically, Appellant claimed that the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction unilaterally extended his sentence by running his two prison terms consecutively without judicial sanction. The Supreme Court affirmed the denial of the petition for a writ of habeas corpus, holding that Appellant’s sentences ran consecutively by operation of statute, and therefore, the Department did not change Appellant’s sentence or aggregate his sentences on its own initiative.
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